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SILENE REGIA. SPLENDID CATCH-FLY. 
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Clafs and Order. 
Decanpria TRIGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. monophyllus, ventricofus. Pefala 5, unguiculata. Czp/. 
fupera, femitrilocularis, apice dehifcens, poly{perma, 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
SILENE regia, (ere@a, vifcofo-pubefcens) calycibus floris 
cylindricis, petalis lanceolatis indivifis, genitalibus exertis. 
SILENE virginica ; var. illinoenfis. Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 1. 
p. 272. ? 
MUSCIPULA regia, Bannifterii, Petiv, Herb. Virg, ? 
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The Sitene regia, though nearly related to virginica, mult, 
we apprehend, be confidered as a diftin& fpecies ; for the latter 
is defcribed as being decumbent, and having bifid petals. It 
may perhaps be the variety found by Micuavx in the Illinois 
country ; and poffibly it may have been the fame that Ban- 
NrisTER fent a defign of to the Bifhop of London. Whether 
__ it be fo or not, his name of regia cannot be badly applied to the 
moft fplendid plant of the genus. The flowers are reprefented 
to us as rivalling in brilliancy the Loperra Julgens, a colour 
{carcely to be imitated by art. zs 
We had not the opportunity of feeing this plant whilft living, 
but upon examining the dried {fpecimens in Mr. Lamzert’s 
herbarium, we find that the petals are fometimes emarginate, 
Native of North-America. F ound by Mr. Nutrat, growing 
{pontaneoufly in great abundance, in the environs of St. Louis, 
on the Miffifippi ; from whofe feeds our plant was raifed in the 
garden of A. B. Lamuert, Ef. at Boyton, where it grew ta 
the height of between two and three fect, 
